haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca (Harold Tomlinson) (11/23/90)
Hi... Our 4 decstation never shut down and are backed up via rdump nightly. Works fine for us. FS's are never unmounted. Do a `man dump` and look at the options. An example backup program follows: ---------------------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/sh # # backme --- backup paralandra # date >backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "rewinding" >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo 'mt -f /dev/rmt0h rewind' >>backuplog 2>>backuplog mt -f /dev/rmt0h rewind >>backuplog 2>>backuplog date >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "Paralandra Backup Begins" >> backuplog 2>>backuplog date >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "" >> backuplog 2>> backuplog echo "Doing / locally" >> backuplog 2>> backuplog echo 'dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0a' >>backuplog 2>>backuplog dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0a >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "" >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "Doing /usr locally" >> backuplog 2>> backuplog echo 'dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0d' >>backuplog 2>>backuplog dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0d >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "" >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "Doing /var locally" >> backuplog 2>> backuplog echo 'dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0e' >>backuplog 2>>backuplog dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0e >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "" >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "Doing /usr/users locally" >> backuplog 2>> backuplog echo 'dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0f' >>backuplog 2>>backuplog dump 0ufds /dev/nrmt0h 250000 10000 /dev/rz0f >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "" >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "Paralandra Backup Ends" >> backuplog 2>>backuplog date >>backuplog 2>>backuplog date >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo "offlining" >>backuplog 2>>backuplog echo 'mt -f /dev/rmt0h rewoffl' >>backuplog 2>>backuplog mt -f /dev/rmt0h rewoffl >>backuplog 2>>backuplog date >>backuplog 2>>backuplog ----------------------------------------------------------------- by the way, you must be root. haroldt. -- ====================================================================== ===== ===== === Harold Tomlinson === = haroldt@paralandra.yorku.ca = = or haroldt@titan.yorku.ca = = 736-5257-33802 = ======================================================================